. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1609 
18 June 2007  
 (07-2543) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UNITED STATES  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Corn, rutabaga, lettuce, soybean, chicory, chive, coriander, dill, marjoram, 
parsley, radicchio, radish, sweet potato, pot ato, squash, turnip, leafy brassica vegetable, 
yam, bean, cotton, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, pea, pimento, melon, muskmelon, cress 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
US trade partners  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  PROPOSED RULE. 
Captan, 2,4-D, Dodine, DCPA, Endothall, Fomesafen, Propyzamide, Ethofumesate, 
Permethrin, Dimethipin, and Fenarimol; Proposed  Tolerance Actions (available in English, 
17 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this rule, the Agency proposes the following 
changes to existing federal regulations: 
EPA is proposing to transfer and revise tolera nces for the combined inadvertent residues of 
the herbicide dimethyl tetrachloroterephthala te (DCPA) and its metabolites monomethyl 
tetrachloroterephthalate acid (MTP) and te rachlorophthalic acid (TCP) (calculated as 
DCPA) in or on corn, field, forage; corn, field stover; corn, pop, forage; corn, pop, stover; 
corn, sweet, forage; corn, sweet, stover at 0.4 ppm; corn, grain (including pop and field) at 
0.05 ppm to corn, pop, grain at 0.05 ppm and corn, field, grain at 0.05 ppm; corn, sweet, 
kernel plus cob with husks removed at 0.05 ppm ; lettuce at 2 ppm to 2.0 ppm; rutabagas at 
2 ppm to rutabaga at 2.0 ppm; and soybean at 2 ppm to 2.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to correct and transfer the tolerances for the combined inadvertent 
residues of the herbicide DCPA and its metabolites MTP and TCP (calculated as DCPA) in or on basil, fresh leaves from 20.0 to 5.0 ppm and basil, dried leaves from 5.0 to 20.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to transfer the tolerances fo r the combined inadvertent residues of the 
herbicide DCPA and its metabolites MTP and TC P (calculated as DCPA) in or on celeriac 
at 2.0 ppm; chicory, roots at 2.0 ppm; chicory, tops at 5.0 ppm; chive at 5.0 ppm; coriander, leaves at 5.0 ppm; dill at 5.0 ppm; marjoram at 5.0 ppm; parsley, leaves at 5.0 ppm; parsley, dried leaves at 20.0 ppm; radicchio at 5.0 ppm; and radish, oriental at 2.0 ppm.  
There are currently no registered uses for DCPA in or on beans (field, mung and 
succulent), cotton, cucumbers, eggplants, peppe rs, blackeyed peas, potatoes, squash (winter 
and summer), sweet potatoes, turnips, leafy brassica vegetables and yams. However, the G/SPS/N/USA/1609 
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  tolerances are being retained to cover any in advertent residues from rotation of crops to 
previously DCPA treated fields/crops.  
EPA is proposing to revise and transfer tolera nces for the combined inadvertent residues of 
the herbicide DCPA and its metabolites MTP a nd TCP (calculated as DCPA) in or on bean, 
field, dry to bean, dry; bean, mung, seed at 2 ppm; bean, snap, succulent at 2 ppm; cotton, 
undelinted seed at 0.2 ppm; cucumber at 1.0 ppm; eggplant at 1.0 ppm; pepper at 2 ppm; 
pimento at 2 ppm; potato at 2 ppm; squash, summer at 1.0 ppm; squash, winter at 1 ppm; pea, blackeyed to pea, blackeyed , seed; radish, oriental to radish, oriental, roots and radish, 
oriental, tops; sweet potato, roots to sweet potat o; turnip to turnip, roots; turnip, greens to 
turnip, tops; vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5 at 5 ppm; and yam, true, tuber at 2 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to revise commodity terminol ogy and tolerances to conform to current 
Agency practice for the combined residues of  the herbicide DCPA and its metabolites MTP 
and TCP (calculated as DCPA) in or on me lon, honeydew to muskmelon; and onion to 
onion, bulb. 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerance in/on cress, upland at 5 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest  or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [ ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the 
appropriate reference and briefly identify deviations:     
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
6 June 2007 (Volume 72, Number 108) Proposed Rules Page 31221-31237; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/June/Day-06/p10863.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  6 August 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 6 August 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0097. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel.:+(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax: +(1 202) 69 0-0677;  E-mail: fstsd@fas.usda.gov